18 - Immigration Flashcards

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Un inconnu

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A stranger

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Un étranger

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A foreigner

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La nationalité

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Nationality

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Un ressortissant étranger

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A foreign national

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Des personnes de nationalités françaises

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French citizens

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Émigrer en Nouvelle-Zélande

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To emigrate to New Zealand

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Immigrer en France

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To immigrate to France

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Une vague d’immigration

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A wave of immigration

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Immigration à grande échelle, de masse

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Large-scale/mass immigration

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Une exode

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An exodus

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Un nouvel arrivant

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A newcomer

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Pays natal, pays d’origine

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native country, home country

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Un pays d’adoption

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An adoptive country, a country of adoption

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Un pays d’accueil

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A host country

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La patrie

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Homeland

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Accueillir

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To welcome

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Accueillant

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Welcoming

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La politique migratoire

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Immigration policy

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Immigration choisie, immigration

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Selective immigration, controlled

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Les flux migratoires

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migration flows

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Un passager clandestin

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A stowaway

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L’immigration clandestine, irrégulière

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illegal immigration

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L’immigration sauvage

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Uncontrolled immigration

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L’espoir d’une vie meilleure

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Hoping for a better life

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Un immigrant clandestin, un sans-papiers

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An illegal immigrant, illegal alien, an undocumented alien

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Il est en situation irrégulière

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His papers are not in order

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Les contrôles d’identité

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Identity checks

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Se sentir exclu

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To feel alienated

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Une société a deux vitesses

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A two-tier society

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Des citoyens de seconde zone

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Second-class citizen

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Subir une injustice

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To suffer a wrong

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Réparer une injustice

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To right a wrong

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S’excuser auprès de quelqu’un

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To apologize to sb

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S’exiler

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To go into exile

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Une frontière

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A border, a frontier

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Fermer ses frontières

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To close one’s borders

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Les contrôles aux frontières

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Border controls

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Un centre de rétention (administrative)

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A holding centre, a detention facility

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Un passeport

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A passport

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Une carte d’identité

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An identity Card

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Un visa

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A visa

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Un réfugié

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A refugee

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Une personne déplacée

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A displaced person

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Un apatride

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A stateless person

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Se réfugier

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To take refuge, take shelter

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Demander l’asile politique

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To seek political asylum [e’sailem]

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum-seeker

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Fuir la persécution, la misère

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To flee persecution/destitution

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Échapper à la pauvreté

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To escape poverty

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Chercher de meilleures conditions de vie

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To be in search of better living-conditions

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Le traffic des êtres humains

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Human trafficking

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Un contrebandier, un passeur

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A smugler

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Les passeurs d’immigrants clandestins

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People-smugglers

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Un réseau de passeur

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A smuggling ring

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Un faux passeport

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A fake passport

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Reconduire quelqu’un a la frontière

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To escort sb back to the border

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Renvoyer un immigrant dans son pays

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To send an immigrant back to his native country

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Expulser quelqu’un

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To deport sb

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Être refoulé à la frontière

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To be turned away at the border

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Être expulsé

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To be ordered out of the country

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Quelqu’un qui abuse du système de prestations sociales

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A benefit cheat

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La fraude aux prestations sociales

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Benefit fraud

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Un parasite

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A freeloader

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Un mariage blanc

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A sham marriage, a marriage of convenience

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Inonder

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To flood

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Être envahi par les étrangers

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To be swamped with foreigners

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L’arrivée massive, l’afflux de travailleurs

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The influx of workers

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Endiguer l’afflux d’immigrants

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To stem the flow of immigrants

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Limiter, freiner l’immigration

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To restrict/curb immigration

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Un parti d’extrême droite

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A far-right party

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Faire fuir les immigrants

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To scare immigrants away

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Empêcher les indésirables d’entrer

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To keep out undesirables

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La xénophobie

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Xenophobia

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Xénophobe

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Xenophobic

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Avoir un grand père né à l’étranger

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To have a foreign-born grand-father

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Des jeunes gens d’origine asiatique, portugaise

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Young men of Asian / Portuguese descent

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Un français de naissance

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A native of France

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Un new-yorkais de souche

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A born and bred New-yorker

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Il est français de souche

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He’s of French origin/extraction

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Le Magreb

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North Africa

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Les maghrébins

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North African

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Pakistanais, du Bengladesh

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Pakistani, Bengladeshi

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Hispanophone, parlant le hindi

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Spanish-speaking, Hindi-speaking

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Diaspora

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Diaspora

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Exiler, bannir quelqu’un

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To exile, to banish sb

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Un exilé

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An exile

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S’expatrier

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To expatriate oneself

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Un expatrié

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An expatriate, an expat

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Passer à l’ouest/à l’ennemi

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To defect to the west/to the ennemy

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Fuite des cerveaux/afflux des cerveaux

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Brain drain /Brain gain

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Le travail au noir

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Moonlighting

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Un atelier clandestin

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A sweatshop

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Exploiter les travailleurs immigrés

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To exploit migrant workers [´maigrant]

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Un permis de travail, une carte de travail

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A work permit

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Un permis de séjour, une carte de séjour

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A residence permit, a resident permit

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Un travailleur migrant

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A migrant worker

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Un travailleur invité (disposant d’un visa temporaire)

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A guest worker

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S’intégrer

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To become integrated

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Bien s’intégrer dans une société

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To integrate well into a society

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L’insertion sociale

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Social integration

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Régulariser la situation des clandestins

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To regularise the status of illegal immigrants

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La régularisation

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Regularisation

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Se faire naturaliser britannique

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To be granted British citizenship

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Être naturalisé britannique, obtenir la nationalité britannique

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To become a British citizen

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Un quota

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A quota

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Le regroupement familial

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Family reunion/reunification

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Se déraciner

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To uproot

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Un mendiant

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A beggar

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Parti ouvertement raciste (surtout islamophobe) d’Angleterre

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The British National Party (2 seats in the European Parliament 2009 but not in the House of Commons)

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Distribuer

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To hand out

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Des flyers

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Leaflets

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Pays européen à forte immigration dans les 90’s

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Ireland as the prosperous “Celtic Tiger” when it entered the EU

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Une citoyenneté méritée

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Earned citizenship

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Se jeter avec jubilation sur

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To pounce with glee on

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Se réjouir de

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To delight in

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Mettre à rude épreuve

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To put a strain on

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Se tracasser

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To fret about